What Separates Me and You

Chapter 184 Was This How She Begged You

Lewis clasped Josephine’s hand again and slowly said, “Come with me. We’ll get the divorce certificate after your wounds are healed.”

Josephine slowly looked up after hearing this.

“Can we go now?”

Josephine lowered her eyes again and stared at her toes.

Lewis brought her to the car and helped her fasten her seat belts. Then, he went to the driver’s seat and drove out of the mansion’s compound.

When they arrived back at Styx Mansion, Lewis brought out the first aid kit and cleaned Josephine’s hands of the blood stains with the disinfectant.

Josephine sat motionless on the sofa, permitting Lewis’ actions.

He was very gentle, but Josephine still cringed when the alcohol touched the wounds on her fingertips.

“Stay still. Bear with me,” said Lewis as he held her hand steadfastly. Although he tried his best to be careful when disinfecting her wounds, Josephine would still tremble whenever the alcohol came in contact with them.

She could remember clearly the anguish she felt when the needle penetrated her fingertips.

She couldn’t put the pain into words, but she felt she could understand why their forefathers. would think the fingers are connected to the heart.

As enraged as Lewis had been, he had never treated her this way.

The most brutal act Lewis did to her was merely locking her up.

After Lewis cleaned her hands, he observed three of her fingernails were red with an easily discerned thin line of blood running through the middle.

He had a dangerous glint in his eyes that quickly disappeared.

After he finished applying medication to Josephine’s wounds, she was again covered in sweat, and her face was as pale as chalk

“It’s done.”

Josephine kept her head lowered all the time. When she heard him, she quietly withdrew her hand.

Lewis raised his hand to touch her face, but she turned her head slightly and dodged his hand.

word, Lewis stared fixedly at her

How

said, “Have a

left, closing the door after him-locking it

her head to look at the door. The door had closed

the light that entered the room was

little finger, index finger, and

right after. Following an

gale battered at the willow tree in the lawn,

sofa, hugging her knees tightly, her eyes staring blankly

the muddy ground. Rain soaked her thoroughly, and her hair was in an utter mess. Under

frantically scrambled up from the ground and tried

errand when someone captured her and brought her here, wherever it

were a blur in the torrent. She could only hear dogs barking against the rain.

due to an unknown wound or the heavy

walked a few steps before crashing to the ground

They stood like statues in the rain

was terrified. She stumbled and crawled, trying to find a way out, but when she fell again,

water stained those shoes.

for him as

my fault, I merely followed Mrs. Alvarez’s orders and didn’t do it out of my own

184 Was The How She Begged

a deaf ear to Mrs. Alvarez’s instructions. Master Lewis! I have mouths to

me for this once, Master Lewis. I

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these years Roery maid in

and about.

mind she would end up like this, less so

Lewis seemed to nothing. His face remained emotionless as he stood there while she

voice above her saying, “Was this how she begged you, too?”

more evident than before. She shook he frantically as she answered, “No! No, Madam

speak, let alone beg!” He abruptly raised his leg and kicked her, toppling her over. He pressed his mud-stained

The pressure on her face increased,

I look amiable to you?”